Lastinger v. Town of Adel

The owner of a tract of land divided it into building lots and streets, and conveyed the lots with reference to the plan. A short time thereafter a town was incorporated, embracing the territory that had been divided into streets and lots. The owner of the land, or his grantee, placed a fence upon one of these lots along the line of the street as laid out in the plan. A subsequent grantee extended the fence five feet into the street. The municipal authorities notified the present owner to draw his fence in to the line as established in the plan of the town, and that in default thereof the…